William R. Bauer specializes in jazz, with an emphasis on the roles that timbre and prosody play in jazz vocal and instrumental performance practice. The University of Michigan Press published his book Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter to critical acclaim. Trained as a composer/improviser, he earned the Dalcroze Certificate and License in studies with Robert Abramson. In addition to teaching theory and musicianship, keyboard improvisation, and jazz studies in the College of Staten Island’s Department of Performing and Creative Arts, he also teaches in CSI’s Verrazano School and CORE 100 faculties. He directs the Music SILOH Project, an oral history investigation into the role that music has played in Staten Island’s cultural life.

“All of Me: The Role of Timbre in Louis Armstrong’s Reinvention of an American Popular Song,” Colloque Interdiscipliaire de Musicologie, l’Observatoire International de la Création Musicale, l’Université de
Montreal (posted Spring, 2006).